Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

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Girl with a Pearl Earring Summary

The Girl with a Pearl Earring is the story of Griet, a sixteen-year old girl who is hired by the famous painter, Vermeer, to clean his studio. The novel opens with Vermeer and his disheveled -wife, Catharina, visiting Griet's family to have a look at the girl they hope to hire. Griet has been cutting vegetables for the soup and has separated them by color in a wheel: turnips, carrots, leeks...

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Tracy Chevalier

4,064 words, approx. 14 pages

Tracy Chevalier scored a bestseller with her 2000 novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, set in the Dutch city of Delft in the 1660s. Her heroine, Griet, is a teenager who enters the household of the paint... Read more

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Girl with the Pearl Earning, A Review

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As Griet poses for the renowned painter, Johannes Vermeer, she is speechless, yet overcome with agony in her pierced earlobes and in her heart. For her stunningly beautiful portrait, Johannes Vermeer... Read more

Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Girl with a pearl earring suggests that everyone suffers when society has different rules for different groups. The novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" depicts the hardships that different social class... Read more

Girl with a Pearl Earring Essay

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Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier, took place in Dreft, Holland. It is based on Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring painting, and how the author thinks the painting was created ... Read more

Griet's Journey toward Self-Understanding in Chevalier's Novel Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Girl with a Pearl Earring is told through the eyes of the protagonist Griet. Tracy Chevalier develops Griet's character from a naïve 16 year adolescent into a somewhat socially aware and accepta... Read more

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